Despite the popularity of web-based email accounts, there are still people who use POP3 mailboxes and email clients such as Outlook Express. If you're one of them, keep on reading because you're going to love this app.

SpamBrave is a powerful antispam tool that sets a filter between your mailbox and the mail server, analyzing each message you download and throwing all the spam away so that it doesn't bother you anymore. Of course, the program's efficiency depends highly on its training, and training takes time. But this learning process has been automated to a certain extent, which means that fortunately you don't have to go over all of your messages one by one.

SpamBrave can take a look at your Outlook folders and learn from what you consider good and bad email messages. If you don't have enough of them, it'll learn from its embedded spam library. Plus you can also create "white" and "black" lists with your approved and banned senders, respectively.

The program is seamlessly integrated into the Outlook interface as a new toolbar and includes some configuration settings with which you can adapt it you your needs.

SpamBrave is a powerful spam filter for Outlook Express that, after some careful training, can help you get rid of those unwanted messages.

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Spam Terrier sits between your email server and your email client, working as a powerful filter to prevent all those spam messages from reaching your inbox. Although we didn't have the time to test it thoroughly (it would have taken days to check its accuracy) we certainly could see that this is a very polished and promising tool that can help you in your personal battle against unsolicited messages.

Spam Terrier is seamlessly integrated into your e-mail client as a toolbar from which you can mark messages as spam or non spam. The program does require some prior training but this can easily be done by means of a wizard and the messages you already have in your inbox. The program also enables you to create white and black lists (for approved and banned senders respectively) as well as decide what to do with spam messages.

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There's nothing more annoying than your personal inbox getting filled with spam trying to sell you viagra, financial services and all manner of other things you don't want.

Mailwasher Free is an easy solution for those that want to try and stop the avalanche of spam that may be clogging your inbox. These programs can be hard to setup but Mailwasher is refreshingly free of jargon and will help you get setup on just about any mail client in a matter of seconds. The program has even received glowing write ups by the BBC and CNN so you know you're getting something pretty decent here. Mailwasher has a clever preview utility which allows you to preview spam before downloading it onto your desktop - this is especially useful if it's malicious mail that could do damage to your hard drive. You can customise it to make it more sensitive to your needs too such as by adding friends to your contact list and also instructing it to bounce suspicious mail back to the sender. This is particularly useful as it will make the sender think your address is no longer active so your name is removed from their list meaning they won't be bothering you again.

A very simple but highly effective and powerful spam management tool that makes sure your inbox stays junk free.

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Call me ungrateful but I'm fed up with being offered millions of dollars by my distinguished Nigerian relatives or the inheritence of my dog's grandma's Indian cousin. In fact, I'm starting to question whether these guys are even genuine or not. If only I had a program that could weasel out junk mail from the real deal. Oh, hang on, here comes my download of Spam Monitor. Could this be the solution to my quandry?

The answer is yes, for this program is designed to help separate spam messages from genuine emails. It's great because it's aimed largely at non tech-savy users, providing a simple means of stubbing out spam before it reaches your inbox without you having to configure a number of elaborate email filters. There are three different configurations to choose from: Minimum, Normal or Aggressive. I would personally recommend to run it in Normal mode because I found Aggressive was a little too harsh, and marked a lot of my ordinary emails as spam, which is quite annoying. Nevertheless, you do get the option to whitelist certain email addresses or domains to allow them through in future.

Setting up the filters is a very straightforward process and there are plenty of tools bundled with Spam Monitor that can heighten its effectiveness. For instance, the program contains a useful option for blocking all mail from China, Taiwan and Korea, which, unless you have contacts in these places, is very handy because these countries are the source of a lot of junk mail. Although the app can't protect your Webmail, it supports a large range of POP clients, making it a fine tool for ridding your inbox of nonsense.

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With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities to businesses every day, anti-spam software is a vital component of your network’s security strategy. Spam wastes network users’ time and network resources, and can also be dangerous. GFI MailEssentials offers spam and phishing protection at server level and eliminates the need to install and update anti-spam software on each desktop.

GFI MailEssentials offers a fast set-up and a high spam detection rate using Bayesian analysis and other methods – no configuration required, very low false positives through its automatic whitelist, and the ability to automatically adapt to your email environment to constantly tune and improve spam detection. GFI MailEssentials will eliminate over 98% of the spam from your network! GFI MailEssentials also detects and blocks phishing emails through a system of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and keyword checks. In addition to anti-spam filtering and anti-phishing protection, GFI MailEssentials also adds email management tools to your mail server: disclaimers, mail monitoring, Internet mail reporting, list server, server-based auto replies and POP3 downloading.

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Cloudmark Desktop (formerly SafetyBar for Outlook) is a fully automatic anti-spam and anti-phishing add-on for Outlook, that filters your email as it arrives in your Inbox and moves suspected spam into a designated spam folder, from where you can review it later or delete it.

The filtering mechanism is based on the Cloudmark service, the largest community-based platform used to stop the plague of junk email and email fraud, and it does not require you to create any filters or rules. You can however create a white list, to make sure certain contacts will never be filtered, and also re-classify selected messages.

Benefits of Cloudmark Desktop:

• Installs in minutes and requires no configuration
• No rules or lists to manage
• Blocks over 98% of spam from reaching your inbox
• Uniquely blocks phishing emails to safeguard you against scams
• Puts you in control—simply press the Block or Unblock button
• Free automatic product updates and email support

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Symantec’s Norton AntiSpam 2005 filters out unwanted email to make your online communications safer and more enjoyable. Automatic identification of spam makes it easy to block messages you don’t want, without interfering with your legitimate email. Norton AntiSpam can also flag messages that have offensive content and block intrusive online ads.

Additional features:

• Integration with Yahoo! Web Mail
• E-mail Fraud Detection
• Enhanced Offensive E-mail Filtering
• Automatic Address Book Update
• Language Filtering

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Spam is one the most annoying plagues in today's technology world, along with other similar "diseases" such as spyware, viruses and the likes. Luckily there are also powerful tools to avoid them, like SPAMfighter.

This spam filtering utility is embedded as a new toolbar in your email client (namely Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook, the two apps SPAMfighter works with) from where it analyzes every email message that enters the system in search of spam. If the message passes the filter, it'll appear in your inbox. If not, it usually ends up in the Spam folder – or the Unsure one if SPAMfigher is not sure whether the message is spam or not.

The filter used by SPAMfighter can be set to different sensitivity values, from very soft to very hard. Though the filter is not perfect and may put a legitimate message in the Spam folder from time to time, it's also being constantly improved with new spam messages and senders contributed by thousands of SPAMfighter users worldwide.

Eradicate spam from your inbox with a powerful filtering tool that learns from the experience of its own users.

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SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for SMTP Servers. It protects all of your users from time consuming spam and is installed in minutes. SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server can coexist with your existing email solution on the same server, thus eliminating the need to invest in costly hardware and software licenses.

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server is powered by millions of SPAMfighters from hundreds of countries/areas. If enough SPAMfighters report the same spam mail, it is instantly removed from all users. This means instant spam protection with no configuration or maintenance - perfect for businesses who want to get rid of spam but don't want any maintenance whatsoever.

The SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server makes a unique encrypted signature for each message and sends it to the SPAMfighter Server for evaluation. If the SPAMfighter Server determines that a message is spam, it notifies SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server and a user-defined action can be performed.

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server also offers reporting, so administrators can review statistics on how many emails have been filtered, how many mailboxes are active, etc.

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Vade Retro for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express filters up to 99% of spam, scam, phishing, spreading virus and bounce messages. The anti-spam toolbar is free and without obligation. The installation only takes a few seconds, then protection against spam will be active right away.

Unwanted messages are moved into folders of their own, for you to browse and/or remove at your convenience. Spam changes, so does the filter, which is constantly updated by the Vade Retro team at GOTO Software. Automatic update of the filter is subscription-based.

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Junk email is a major problem and there's hardly a mailbox anywhere that doesn't get some at one stage or another. According to the developers of MailWasher Pro, unwanted email or spam now forms around 90% of received email. MailWasher Pro lets you safely preview and delete bad email before it gets to your computer meaning if it doesn't contain anything harmful, it won't affect your computer.

MailWasher is very easy to use. The developers claim that they took the view that if you can't understand how to use a piece of software in under 5 minutes then it's probably always going to be hard to use. MailWasher Pro analyzes each email as it arrives and warns you if it is suspected junk mail or a virus. There's no real need for you to know this and it would have been better if they'd just blocked everything harmful full stop but at least you know.

The look and feel is like that of Outlook Express and it can be used with the former plus Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, Incredimail and several other major mail clients. This is a powerful program although unless you suffer from serious spam problems, it's not really worth the effort.

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Junkanoo sits between youy email server and client, acting as a filter for spam messages. It doesn't work in the usual way where you "train" the program according to the type of messages you receive. Instead of that, Junkanoo displays the messages still on your server and allows you to filter them before actually downloading them with your favorite email client.

The program marks messages as spam according to the most typical characteristics of this kind of messages: empty subject lines, links inside the message, strange characters, etc. However, it is you who has to manually mark each message as definitive spam or approve it to enter your inbox. Junkanoo also has support to create white and black lists for allowed and banned sender domains respectively.

Besides filtering spam in your mailbox, the program includes a small editor to send messages from Junkanoo, featuring also a spellchecker.

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Everyone owning an email address knows these annoying mails you receive. The number of spam mails running around is continuously increasing so everyone has to spend more time on sorting out good mails from spam. Don't waste time on this let SpamAware do it for you! SpamAware is a plugin for Ms-Outlook and MS-Outlook Express.

It uses SpamAssassin to score new incomming mails and decides based on the settings made in options what to do with the mail. It contacts through SpamAssassin several spam-server to be more efficient.

The application is completely functional after installation and gets automatically active on new mails. It supports Black- and Whitelist filtering and is able to automatically add all your Outlook and Outlook Express contacts and add recipients of mails you write to the Whitelist.

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SpamArrow is a simple and stable spam blocker to effectively filter out any unwanted spam emails with nearly zero false positives. It uses the famous SpamAssassin engine and the Bayesian filtering to automatically classify incoming emails as spam or non-spam. This anti spam software is a great add-on for Outlook and Outlook Express by automatically creating integrated spam-fighting toolbar buttons and a spam folder to collect all emails identified as spam. Unlike most spam filter software products usually do, SpamArrow will never modify your original email message and never add message rules for Outlook or Outlook Express.

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Spam Reader is an MS Outlook plugin that extends Outlook functionality with a Bayesian spam filter. There is no need to run an external program. Spam Reader fully integrates into MS Outlook. Spam Reader analyzes each message when you receive it and puts it in the Spam folder if needed. SpamReader does not break existing Outlook filtering rules. The Bayesian spam filter is self-trainable. You can also tune it up for better accuracy.

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Finally get rid of spam and enjoy a productive e-mailing experience with the SpamScreener free Edition! With SpamScreener Free Edition, you get a state-of-the-art challenge/response (permission-based) spam blocker which provides virtually 100% accuracy, all for free! It’s so easy that even a computer beginner can set it up and enjoy no spam in just one minute! And SpamScreener Free Edition will protect you from opening spam viruses and worms too. This program works with any standard POP3 email account and client. And for your convenience, it automatically configures for Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora. SpamScreener Free Edition is completely free for personal, educational and non-commercial use.

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Spam Blocker is an application for filtering incoming correspondence. Spam Blocker this is a very simple, convenient and fast prtection tool for prior analysis, blocking and deleting incoming advertising letters (spam) immediately on mail servers.

Spam Blocker solves the main problem caused by spam: necessity to upload a huge number of letters from mail accounts consumes lots of traffic. Besides, reading and selecting necessary letters can also be very time-consuming.

Spam Blocker allows you to avoid these problems due to the fact that analyzing correspondence is carried out without uploading it first from the mail server. Spam Blocker checks the mail and receives the headings of letters, located in a user mail account (electronic mail address, addressees' names, letter subjects etc.). Further analysis is carried out by these headings to establish whether they belong to spam. Besides the already existent in Spam Blocker rules and unwanted advertisement letters blocking lists, all the letter selection criteria are set immediately by the user, that allows to tune the application with proper consideration for individual user needs. In addition, Spam Blocker can work with several mail accounts at the same time and enables individual filter settings for each account, allowing for their destination and peculiarities.

Spam Blocker is an opportunity to cut spending on traffic and time to view the undesirable and unnecessary messages. Spam Blocker is a universal protection tool that guards against obtrusive advertising.

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xTerminator 4.5 is designed to help you block spam and most of worms before they even reach your mailbox. The program allows you to delete unwanted messages directly from the server, thus saving valuable time and bandwidth.

Highlights of xTerminator:

• Check email while it's still on server

• Automatically filter unwanted messages

• Manually check messages before deletion (optional)

• Save bandwidth

• Lessen the chance of virus infection

• Clean multiple accounts

• Create custom filters, simple and complex

• Block all but friendly messages (optional)

• Quick Learn option

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BitDefender Antispam for Mail Servers (Win SMTP Proxy) uses six proprietary modules to keep unwanted e-mail out of your organization:

• IP match
• Keyword filter
• White list/blacklist
• Charset filter
• URL filter
• Heuristic filter

BitDefender AntiSpam checks every incoming & outgoing email message and attaches a Spam Score. If the spam score is greater than or equal to the spam threshold, then the message is marked as spam. Otherwise, it's marked as ham (non-spam).

For complete protection, BitDefender Antispam for Mail Servers (WIN SMTP Proxy) can also be installed along with BitDefender for MS Exchange 5.5 and BitDefender for Lotus Domino.

BitDefender Antispam for Mail Servers (WIN SMTP Proxy) should not be installed along with BitDefender for MS Exchange 2003, BitDefender for MS Exchange 2000 or BitDefender Antivirus & Antispam for Mail Servers (WIN SMTP Proxy), because all these products already provide both antivirus and antispam protection.

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Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.

The new Learning Filter (Bayesian Filter) uses the rules of Thomas Bayes (English mathematician, 18th century) and calculates a certain Spam-Probability for every E-Mail. You can train this filter! So it will know your messages even better than you. Hence the recognition rate will continuously increase.

In addition Spamihilator uses a Word-Filter, that searches messages for known keywords. Of course, Spamihilator supports Plugins. These useful additional filters protect your system against annoying spam mails.

The program works with almost every E-Mail client, such as Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc...

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